A busy week at 88nine this week with Soundbites! at the Iron Horse Hotel being the doozy of a week full of sonic surprises. In the course of my diggings this week I managed to play a few ew things on the air for Sound Travels, but also...

African music is often admired for its poly-rhythms, its ancient musical traditions and at times, the novelty of Western instrumentation within a traditional mode. More than most continents, Africa tends to suffer from the perception we'd...

Okay, so I'd actually never really put in any listening time with the style I presented on Sound Travels last; at least not till a couple weeks back while surfing youtube videos and stumbling across one for kizomba. Kizomba, a style that...